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Seong-ho's story is a testament to the yearning of every human soul to live in freedom.
承鎬的故事證明了每一個人類靈魂都渴望自由。
It was that same yearning for freedom that nearly 250 years ago gave birth to a special place called America.
正是這種對自由的向往，近250年前，催生了美國這個特殊的地方。
It was a small cluster of colonies caught between a great ocean and a vast wilderness.
當時還是夾在大洋和廣大荒野之間的一小群殖民地。
It was home to an incredible people with a revolutionary idea, that they could rule themselves,
但現在是具有革命性想法的了不起的人民的家園，他們相信可以自我統治。
that they could chart their own destiny, and that, together, they could light up the entire world.
他們能夠掌握自己的命運，他們攜起手來可以照亮全世界。
That is what our country has always been about.
這就是我們國家一如既往的價值。
That is what Americans have always stood for, always strived for, and always done.
這就是美國人捍衛、為之奮斗并一直成功實現的東西。
Atop the dome of this Capitol stands the Statue of Freedom.
在這座國會大廈的圓頂上，佇立著自由女神像。
She stands tall and dignified among the monuments to our ancestors who fought and lived and died to protect her.
她高高在上，在眾多先烈的紀念碑之中傲立，榮耀那些為了保護她而奮斗、生活并死亡的人。
Monuments to Washington and Jefferson, and Lincoln and King.
這些紀念碑有華盛頓、杰弗遜，有林肯，有馬丁·路德·金。
Memorials to the heroes of Yorktown and Saratoga, to young Americans who shed their blood on the shores of Normandy and the fields beyond.
還有約克敦和薩拉托加的英雄們，這些年輕的美國人在諾曼底海灘和更大的戰場上拋頭顱灑熱血。
And others who went down in the waters of the Pacific and the skies all over Asia.
還有那些沉入太平洋海底，身隕亞洲天空中的人。
And freedom stands tall over one more monument: this one.
自由還高聳在另一個紀念堂上：就是這里。
This Capitol. This living monument. This is the monument to the American people.
這幢國會大廈，美國人民活生生的紀念物。
